The LTLL team at ACU includes Mick Bezzina and Charles Burford, and our online animator is Jane Bezzina.
Here's a little bit about each of us: Mick
Mick
Associate Professor Michael Bezzina is Director of the Centre for Creative and Authentic Leadership at ACU National where he has worked since the start of 2007. For the previous 16 years he was in system leadership roles in Catholic education in the Diocese of Parramatta, significantly as Director of Religious Education and Educational Services, with responsibility for areas as disparate as curriculum, student welfare, professional and leadership development, special education, and religious education. He had a period as Interim Executive Director and for one memorable six month period he even acted in the role of Director of Finance!
In a rich and varied career Mick has been a secondary school teacher, school leader, teacher educator, consultant, system administrator, process facilitator and researcher. He has worked with organisations in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Mauritius and Pakistan. He has a passionate commitment to working with leaders to promote authentic learning for all students.
Charles
Charles Burford is an Academic and Management Development Consultant, presently Associate Professor in Leadership, atThe Flagship for Creative and Authentic Learning and Managing Director of Burford and Associates. He has been an administrator, academic and consultant in the University, School and Business sectors in Canada, U.S.A., Hong Kong, PNG and Australia. His work in the development of programs for Leaders has received international recognition. Dr. Burford’s work is widely published and was a National Seminar Presenter for Scholastics Australia for several years and has presented extensively to Conferences of Administrators and Leaders in Health, Business, Legal and Police Associations at the National and International level. He has been a Visiting Research Scholar at Pennsylvania State and Fordham Universities in the USA. He has been the Invited International Keynote speaker to the International Conference on Values and Ethics in 2004 and 2006 in Barbados and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Charles consults to education, non- profit and business organisations and conducts Conferences at the international, national and state level. His research and consulting interests include ethics, leadership, and the impact of leadership on organisational effectiveness. His recent research interests have included a Federal Government funded investigation into the tensions and dilemmas facing leaders in front line service organisations, especially in policing, health and education (SOLR), The Leaders Transforming Learners and Learning Project which investigated the impact of a conceptual model of ethical and morally based leadership on learning (LTLL). He is Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leadership and was recently awarded the US Univrersity Council for Educational Administration Outstanding Scholar Award for 2008. Charles is married to Dianne, has three children and seven perfect grandchildren.
Jane
Jane Bezzina is currently and Educational Consultant (Jane Bezzina Consultancy "Inspiring Change") working across a range of Diocese and schools. She combines this enterprise with a part-time Project Manager K-12 position for the Catholic Education Office Sydney.
Her broad knowledge and experience in curriculum and leadership can be attributed to the many roles she has fulfilled spanning key learning areas and stages of schooling having held a number of positions of special responsibility in seven different schools over a career which spans 26 years. Her most recent Leadership position in a school was as Head of Primary at Santa Sabina College Strathfield (2002-2008). She has a lived understanding of contemporary pedagogy and the associated Leadership joys and challenges.During her time in education she has displayed a commitment to the development of programs and processes that can empower and facilitate the individual educational journey of each child and teacher. Jane’s credibility as and Educational Leader is outstanding.
In 2006, Jane was awarded the ACEL prize for best academic performance in NSW in the Masters of Educational Leadership course at Australian Catholic University.She is widely acknowledged as an enthusiastic, innovative and extremely conscientious educator.
Here's a little bit about each of us:
Mick
Mick
Associate Professor Michael Bezzina is Director of the Centre for Creative and Authentic Leadership at ACU National where he has worked since the start of 2007. For the previous 16 years he was in system leadership roles in Catholic education in the Diocese of Parramatta, significantly as Director of Religious Education and Educational Services, with responsibility for areas as disparate as curriculum, student welfare, professional and leadership development, special education, and religious education. He had a period as Interim Executive Director and for one memorable six month period he even acted in the role of Director of Finance!In a rich and varied career Mick has been a secondary school teacher, school leader, teacher educator, consultant, system administrator, process facilitator and researcher. He has worked with organisations in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Mauritius and Pakistan. He has a passionate commitment to working with leaders to promote authentic learning for all students.
Charles
Charles Burford is an Academic and Management Development Consultant, presently Associate Professor in Leadership, atThe Flagship for Creative and Authentic Learning and Managing Director of Burford and Associates. He has been an administrator, academic and consultant in the University, School and Business sectors in Canada, U.S.A., Hong Kong, PNG and Australia. His work in the development of programs for Leaders has received international recognition. Dr. Burford’s work is widely published and was a National Seminar Presenter for Scholastics Australia for several years and has presented extensively to Conferences of Administrators and Leaders in Health, Business, Legal and Police Associations at the National and International level. He has been a Visiting Research Scholar at Pennsylvania State and Fordham Universities in the USA. He has been the Invited International Keynote speaker to the International Conference on Values and Ethics in 2004 and 2006 in Barbados and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Charles consults to education, non- profit and business organisations and conducts Conferences at the international, national and state level. His research and consulting interests include ethics, leadership, and the impact of leadership on organisational effectiveness. His recent research interests have included a Federal Government funded investigation into the tensions and dilemmas facing leaders in front line service organisations, especially in policing, health and education (SOLR), The Leaders Transforming Learners and Learning Project which investigated the impact of a conceptual model of ethical and morally based leadership on learning (LTLL). He is Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leadership and was recently awarded the US Univrersity Council for Educational Administration Outstanding Scholar Award for 2008.
Charles is married to Dianne, has three children and seven perfect grandchildren.
Jane
Jane Bezzina is currently and Educational Consultant (Jane Bezzina Consultancy "Inspiring Change") working across a range of Diocese and schools. She combines this enterprise with a part-time Project Manager K-12 position for the Catholic Education Office Sydney.
Her broad knowledge and experience in curriculum and leadership can be attributed to the many roles she has fulfilled spanning key learning areas and stages of schooling having held a number of positions of special responsibility in seven different schools over a career which spans 26 years. Her most recent Leadership position in a school was as Head of Primary at Santa Sabina College Strathfield (2002-2008). She has a lived understanding of contemporary pedagogy and the associated Leadership joys and challenges.During her time in education she has displayed a commitment to the development of programs and processes that can empower and facilitate the individual educational journey of each child and teacher. Jane’s credibility as and Educational Leader is outstanding.
In 2006, Jane was awarded the ACEL prize for best academic performance in NSW in the Masters of Educational Leadership course at Australian Catholic University.She is widely acknowledged as an enthusiastic, innovative and extremely conscientious educator.